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by titzer 2560 days ago
> But little to substantiate the prosecution narrative recounted as fact by the NYT.

I think you missed the part where they settled.

> There is a reason Wal-Mart spent a billion dollars investigating this case but the government agreed to settle for less than $300 million—once prosecutors dug in, there wasn’t much of a story there.

Wouldn't that rather suggest that they feared they could be liable for much, much more than a billion, and they jumped at the chance to make it all go away for just a "paltry" $300 million?